We’ve probably all hoped someone would quietly fire all the perfectionists, plodders and robotic bureaucrats who make working life miserable.

Now it’s been claimed that uncreative people will be the first against the wall when robots begin their march into offices and factories.

Scientists have revealed the key personality traits that people need to possess in order to survive the robotic revolution — and boring office drones with personality bypasses should be feeling pretty nervous right now.

Researchers from the University of Houston said the key to staying relevant in the age of automation lies in possessing human skills that robots can’t mimic.

“Robots can’t perform as well as humans when it comes to complex social interactions,” said Rodica Damian, assistant professor of social and personality psychology.

“Humans also outperform machines when it comes to tasks that require creativity and a high degree of complexity that is not routine. As soon as you require flexibility, the human does better.”

Damian analyzed data about the working lives of 346,660 Americans, which tracked their progress over 50 years including their “personality traits and vocational interests in adolescence, along with intelligence and socioeconomic status.”

The key to surviving the rise of the robots is to try to be as human as possible.

“The edge is in unique human skills,” she said.

“We found that regardless of social background, people with higher levels of intelligence, higher levels of maturity and extroversion, higher interests in arts and sciences … tended to select (or be selected) into less computerization jobs 11 and 50 years later.”

Damian calculated that a 15-point increase in IQ predicted a 7 percent drop in the probability that a person’s job will be replaced by a robot.

Although education is important, getting a really good degree using perspiration rather than inspiration won’t save you.

The key to surviving the rise of the robots is to try to be as human as possible, using creativity and original thinking to set yourself apart from the bores destined to end up on the scrap heap of history.

These are the personality traits that will protect workers from the oncoming robot revolution:

Extroversion

Creativity

Flexibility

An interest in arts and science

A decent level of education

Intelligence

Imagination

Industriousness

Empathy

Maturity

Sadly, the traditional education system has an unerring habit of punishing people who think and speak out of turn, crushing their creativity and souls before they have a chance to shine.

Damian said her findings suggest “traditional education may not be fully equipped to address upcoming changes in the labor market.”

“Perhaps we should consider training personality characteristics that will help prepare people for future jobs,” she said.

“By preparing more people, at least more people will have a fighting chance.”